CaraCream

that sounds great that it is a liquid and it does not have granules. let us know how buffer babies works, Erin. Dr. P rocks, BTW!

That’s great!!! Dr Phillips was always SOOO great to quickly answer my questions too! He’s awesome!

For curious onlookers, LOL:

PLEASE MAKE SURE BABY IS ON ‘PROPER DOSE’ (HIGH ENOUGH!)

BECAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPRORTANT!

http://www.marci-kids.com

otherwise, all the caracream/buffer babies in the world won’t help!

caracream/buffer babies: this is where you get a prescription for either prilosec or prevacid capsules (capsules NOT solutabs). next, you buy the caracream kits (now called Buffer Babies). you then act like a mad scientist at your kitchen table, and follow the instructions (or get your husband to do it, LOL!) for how to mix up the capsules together with the mix/kit. then VOILA! you have an easy-to-give liquid that you can give at ANYTIME (don’t have to time around meals) to your screaming baby. whoohoo!!! it is also safe for MSPI babies. essentially, you are compounding the capsules yourself (that’s why you don’t have to worry about the timing of the meds).

How to get it? at one point in the past 5 years, there was a time when you could get caracream mixed by the pharmacist- you would have to check with Marci-kids about this, though.

From what it sounds like in the email above, caracream, now called Buffer Babies, is a kit where you take capsules & do as I described in the above paragraph. I’d contact http://www.marci-kids.com. Also try contacting David Stock: [email protected] and/or Amy (David’s assistant):
[email protected]

or call them at Reflux Solutions: 573.884.0672

What’s in it?

erintx; posted p.2 wrote:

It’s here, it’s here .

My bottle still says CaraCream (not Buffer Babies) fwiw.

Here are the ingredients in CaraCream for those interested:

-sucrose

-corn syrup solids

-buffer (sodium bicarbonate, calcium phosphate, potassium phosphate)

-partially hydrogenated coconut oil

-modified food starch

-caramel flavor

-turmeric

-annatto extract

-hydroxy cobalamin

CONTAINS NO PROTEIN OR MILK PRODUCT

first of all, I’ll start with ME. Five years ago (!) my baby was a screaming/howling mess. He came home from the hospital on an apnea monitor, after being in the NICU. He was on zantac and reglan. HOWLING. He did not sleep. he would pass out exhausted only to wake up again arching his back, turning beet red and SHRIEKING like we had put him in hot oil.

I hopped on the internet & found this site. I did not want to even join in. I sent an email to a nice mama. I read about caracream. I GOT caracream. then, I never left this board!

the makers of caracream sold the recipe to Santarus, the makers of Zegerid. something like this. so then caracream could no longer be sold, due to non-compete agreements. so then there was zegerid, which is basically caracream but made with PRILOSEC (& a different flavor). caracream can be used with EITHER prilosec or prevacid. so at that time, there was no longer caracream, but there was zegerid.

SO, zegerid it was!!!! no worrying about timing of the meds, etc. however zegerid came with it’s own ‘issues.’ nothing major! just a few kinks needed to get worked out.

NOW here we are in July 2008. Caracream is BACK!!! now being renamed as Buffer Babies.

So now you have a choice. Zegerid that is made with prilosec,

OR caracream that can be made with either prilosec or prevacid.

I vote for caracream, since that ‘s what I used.

but you cannot go wrong with either one.

BOTH are SAFE for MSPI babies.

Lori, s&h’smum Feb 6 2009 wrote:

You don’t have to time around meals with either buffer babies or zegerid. Both are immediate release. It’s only delayed release where you need to time around meals. With immediate release, the buffer in the suspension protects the stomach from any acid and also turns on the proton pumps (it’s the sodium bicarbonate that does this) so that they can be turned off by the med. In delayed release, you need to give the med on an empty stomach to ensure that the med won’t be broken down by stomach contents, and then you eat the meal 30 minutes later to turn on the pumps so that the med can turn them off. In the end, they both do the same thing. But with the immediate release PPI- zegerid, buffer babies/caracream, you don’t need to worry about meals.

You do need a capsule form of PPI though. As David said, you can use generic prilosec, but beware from a mom who has tasted it, that prilosec tastes TERRIBLE when crushed or chewed or swallowed outside of it’s enteric coating. It has a VERY bitter taste that is hard to mask, and required me to get a chaser to get rid of it.

hellbennt2009-06-09 16:15:53

Hmmm – this is interesting! We’re looking at getting away from the solutabs as I think Paige is having troubles with the coloring and flavouring in it, and perhaps the aspartame. Does anyone have an ingredient listing for the Buffer Babies? I wonder if it is natural flavours/colors or artificial? I’ll maybe check into it and post any info I find here too.

Thanks so much for this post. I’m very interested in caracream (buffer babies). I understand the message above from David Stock, but exactly how do I start the process to get it from them? Is it OK to just call the phone number listed in his signature and he’ll send that patient information page or what? (I haven’t been able to find a website or anything).

Sorry about the duplicate post .

isabellasmommy2008-07-11 13:08:34

I just added that to the explanation post, on the previous page. Thanks for pointing that out, Isabellasmommy!